▪ I. secreted, ppl. a.1
(sɪˈkriːtɪd)
[f. secrete v.1 + -ed1.]
Produced by means of secretion.
| 1707 Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 57 The Mass of Blood is chiefly Chyle, chang'd and mix'd with these secreted Humours. 1800 E. Darwin Phytol. vi. 80 Every other secreted fluid in the animal body is in part absorbed again into the system. 1871 Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 3) 413 Diuretics are also administered for the purpose of producing a large flow from the kidneys, so as to enable the secreted urine to hold in solution substances which would otherwise crystallise. |
▪ II. secreted, ppl. a.2
(sɪˈkriːtɪd)
[f. secrete v.2 + -ed1.]
Concealed, hidden.
| 1756 T. Amory J. Buncle (1770) I. 259 Yet it is the small secreted spring that directs, draws, checks, and gives movement to every weight and wheel. 1805 Wordsw. Prelude xi. 141 Not in Utopia,—subterranean fields,—Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! |